Taipei Truth Lutheran Church is deeply loved by God. Over seventy years ago, missionaries from Europe and America traveled across the oceans and sowed the seeds of love and grace in many lives. These missionaries had experienced God's unconditional love and freely given grace. With encouragements and gratitude, they desired to spread this kind of love to more people. This is the origin of our church.
Today, the brothers and sisters in our church not only understand humbly growing in loving God, loving themselves, loving one another, and loving their neighbors, we also have another vision: becoming an apostolic and prophetic church that impacts the nations positively. We envision spreading God's unconditional love to every church, family, workplace, and community, and connecting Chinese churches worldwide in such unconditional love deeply and in unity. We desire to see all churches become more powerful because of love, and bring greater blessings to their nations and societies.
1 Corinthians 2:2 is the foundation of all our ministry, "For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified." Jesus Christ became flesh, took on our sins with His blameless and holy life, and unconditionally gave us His pure life. We serve not for anything else, but because we are deeply moved by this unconditional love.
Discipleship Training
Through worship services, small groups, training courses, and ministries, we make disciples who live a lifestyle of "One Principle, Three Practices" in the three major areas of family, community, and workplace (including campus).
One Principle: Clearly know that "God loves me unconditionally" and firmly believe it regardless of any circumstances. The following three practices help us deeply experience this One Principle.
First Practice "Intimacy with God": Every day, in the process of reading the Bible and praying, we interact with the Lord Jesus Christ intimately and develop a deep and unwavering love relationship with Him.
Second Practice "Partners in Battle": We develop special relationships with other Christians centered on God's word and His unconditional love. We support each other in our personal lives and ministries.
Third Practice "Serve God, Serve People": Motivated by God's love, we joyfully and actively engage in serving the family, community and workplace (including campus). Our primary goal is to lead people to Christ to experience God's unconditional love.
Since the very beginning, Taipei Truth Lutheran Church has been fully committed to developing student ministry at the college level, which remains one of our core ministries. Currently, our youth ministry serves children, teenagers and college students.
In the past seventy years, we have developed over one hundred full-time ministers, the majority whom were raised from the student ministry.
Christ-Centered Family Ministry is a wonderful inheritance given to Taipei Truth Lutheran Church by God. The divorce rate in our church is close to zero, and this is also a key ministry conduit for serving other churches and impacting our society and nation. We provide various long-term training courses for singles, those in dating relationships, married couples, and those in different stages of life. We also actively provide counseling and care for those facing difficulties in their marital and parenting relationships.
In addition to traditional church planting, we have also developed family missions, workplace missions, and media missions, with a focus on caring for the poor - materially, physically or spiritually.
We aim to connect global churches that share the same vision and beliefs. We seek to establish an apostolic and prophetic evangelical church network that is full of love, based on the foundation of discipleship (One Principle, Three Practices) and oriented toward missions among families, communities, workplaces and campuses in Asia.